Exciting times!!
It’s 1921! Friends and train porters Junior and Zeke find their unbreakable bond stretched to its limits when tragedy inspires them to take conflicting paths to a better life. Set in the roaring, jazz-filled 1920s and inspired by real events, THE PORTER follows Junior and Zeke, nurse Marlene and jazz singer Lucy, as a tragedy in the community sets them all on starkly different paths – and on a direct collision course with each other.
Premiering on CBC and BET+, the new series hits the screen on Feb. 23, 2022 – inspired by the real life drama of Black history, live and in colour.
And the creation of 2nd Season is already underway! Writer Motion (writer/Supervising Producer) joins The Porter Season 2 Writers Room, with show runners Anne Marie Morais and Damon Vignale, creator Arnold Pinnock, and writers Keavy Lynch, M.T. Diallo and Vincent Shiao with story coordinator Anika Jarrett, for the much anticipated continuation of the groundbreaking series.
Inspired by real events and set in the roar of the 1920s, THE PORTER (8×60) follows the journeys of an ensemble of characters who hustle, dream, cross borders and pursuke their ambitions in the fight for liberation – on and off the railways that crossed North America. It is a gripping story of empowerment and idealism that highlights the moment when railway workers from both Canada and the United States joined together to give birth to the world’s first Black union. Set primarily in Montreal, Chicago and Detroit as the world rebuilds after the First World War, THE PORTER depicts the Black community in St. Antoine, Montreal – known, at the time, as the “Harlem of the North.” They’re young, gifted and Black, from Canada, the Caribbean, and the U.S. via the Underground Railroad and through the Great Migration, and they find themselves thrown together north and south of the colour line, in an era that boasts anything is possible – but if change isn’t coming for them, they will come for it. By any means necessary.
